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On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 09:54:22PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 17:59:25 -0500, Michael Swanson wrote: |
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> > Is this technique of umask=0 safe to use on an NTFS volume? I want to |
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> > mount an NTFS drive on my desktop so that a regular user can access it. |
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> > Is there a similar way to mount it with only read permissions, |
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> > seeing as writing to NTFS drives isn't usually a particularly good idea |
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> > with Linux. |
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> NTFS partitions are usually mounted with the ro option (read only) so it |
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> doesn't matter what write permissions you set. But to be certain, you |
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> could set umask=222. |
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> Neil Bothwick |
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> "Bother," said Pooh, as he pulled the alien face-hugger off. |
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thanks again. i use "umask=022" that solved the problem perfectly. |
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just write down the permission you want, eg. 755, then 777 minus |
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755, the result is right the value for the "umask". |
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hope it's a useful tip for beginners like me :-) |
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best regards |
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daniel |
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